Delta Healthy Sprouts: Intervention to Promote Maternal Weight Control and Reduce Childhood Obesity in the MS Delta

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Conditions studied: Obesity

In brief

The Delta Healthy Sprouts Project is a randomized, controlled trial evaluating the enhancement of an existing Mother, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting Program in 150 African American women in their early second trimester of pregnancy. The control arm, Parents as Teachers, is an evidence-based approach to increase parental knowledge of child development and improve parenting practices. The experimental arm, Parents as Teachers Enhanced, builds on the Parents as Teachers curriculum by including nutrition and physical activity components specifically designed for the gestational and postnatal periods. Both arms of the intervention will be implemented by community-based, trained Parent Educators. The comparative effectiveness of the two intervention arms on weight status, dietary intake, and health behaviors of mothers and their infants will be assessed. The Delta Healthy Sprouts Project will determine if a novel, scalable, lifestyle intervention can improve the health of African American women and their children at high-risk for obesity and chronic disease.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT01746394

Run by

USDA, Delta Human Nutrition Research Program

People needed

82

Starts

2013-01-01

Expected to finish

2016-05-01

Last updated by the study team

2016-10-25

Who can join

Age: 18 and older. Sex: female. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• At least 18 years of age
• Less than 18 weeks pregnant with first, second, or third child
• Resident of Mississippi counties of Washington and Bolivar

You may not qualify if…

• Pregnant with more than one fetus

Where it is running

• USDA Agricultural Research Service Mid South Area Office — Stoneville, Mississippi, United States

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